Risk factors for ethnic prejudice during early adolescence

Social Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 288-308

  Kiesner, Jeff ^a   Maass, Anne ^a   Cadinu, Mara ^a   Vallese, Isi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Development; Peer relations; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037766234     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00234     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Aboud, F. E. (1988). Children and prejudice. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Aboud, F. E. & Amato, M. (in press). Developmental and socialization influences on intergroup bias. In R. Brown & S. Gaertner (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook in Social Psychology, Vol 4: Intergroup Processes. Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Aboud, F. E. & Doyle, A. B. (1996a). Parental and peer influences on children's racial attitudes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 20, 371-383.
4. Aboud, F. E. & Doyle, A. B. (1996b). Does talk of race foster prejudice or tolerance in children? Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 28, 161-170.
5. Aboud, F. E. & Mendelson, M. J. (1996). Determinants of friendship selection and quality: Developmental perspectives. In W. M. Bukowski, A. F. Newcomb, & W. W. Hartup (Eds.), The company they keep: Friendship in childhood and adolescence (pp. 87-112). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Abrams, D. & Hogg, M. (1988). Comments on the motivational status of self-esteem in social identity and intergroup discrimination. European Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 317-334.
7. Allport, G. W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
8. Berkowitz, L. (1962). Aggression: A social psychological analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill.
9. Bierly, M. M. (1985). Prejudice toward contemporary outgroups as a generalized attitude. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 15, 189-199.
10. Bigler, R. S. & Liben, L. S. (1993). A cognitive-developmental approach to racial stereo-typing and reconstructive memory in Euro-American children. Child Development, 64, 1507-1518.
11. Black-Gutman, D. & Hickson, F. (1996). The relationship between racial attitudes and social-cognitive development in children: An Australian study. Developmental Psychology, 32, 448-456.
12. Breakwell, G. M. (1979). Illegitimate group membership and inter-group differentiation. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 18, 141-149.
13. Brown, B., Mory, M. & Kinney, D. (1994). Casting crowds in a relational perspective: Caricature, channel, and context. In R. Montemayor, G. Adams, & T. Gullotta (Eds.), Advances in adolescent development, Vol. 5: Personal relationships during adolescence. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
14. Brown, G. & Johnson, S. P. (1971). The attribution of behavioural connotations to shaded and white figures by Caucasian children. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 10, 306-312.
15. Brown, R. (1995). Prejudice: Its Social Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.
16. Brown, R. (2000). Social identity theory: Past achievements, current problems and future challenges. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 745-778.
17. Cadinu, M. & Reggiori, C. (2002). Discrimination of a low status out-group: The role of in-group threat. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 501-515.
18. Cairns, R. B., Cairns, B. D., Neckerman, H. J., Gest, S. D., & Gariépy, J. (1988). Social networks and aggressive behavior: Peer support or peer rejection. Developmental Psychology, 24, 815-823.
19. Carlson, J. M. & Iovini, J. (1985). The transmission of racial attitudes from fathers to sons: A study of Blacks and Whites. Adolescence, 20, 233-237.
20. Coie, J. D., Dodge, K. A., & Coppotelli, H. (1982). Dimensions and types of social status: A cross-age perspective. Developmental Psychology, 18, 557-570.
21. Crocker, J., Thompson, L. L., McGraw, K. M., & Ingerman, C. (1987). Downward comparison, prejudice, and evaluations of others: Effects of self-esteem and threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 907-916.
22. Dishion, T. J., Andrews, D. W., & Crosby, L. (1995a). Antisocial boys and their friends in early adolescence: Relationship characteristics, quality, and interactional process. Child Development, 66, 139-151.
23. Dishion, T. J., Capaldi, D., Spracklen, K. M., & Li, F. (1995b). Peer ecology of male adolescent drug use. Development and Psychopathology, 7, 803-824.
24. Dishion, T. J., Eddy, J. M., Haas, E., Li, F., & Spracklen, K. M. (1997). Friendships and violent behavior during adolescence. Social Development, 6, 207-225.
25. Dishion, T. J., Patterson, G. R., Reid, J. B., Capaldi, D. M., Forgatch, M. S., & McCarthy, S. (1984). Child Telephone Interview. (Available from OSLC, 207 E. 5th Suite 202, Eugene, OR 97401.)
26. Dishion, T. J., Spracklen, K. M., Andrews, D. W., & Patterson, G. R. (1996). Deviancy training in male adolescent friendships. Behavior Therapy, 27, 373-390.
27. Doyle, A. B. & Aboud, F. (1995). A longitudinal study of white children's racial prejudice as a social-cognitive development. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 41, 209-228.
28. Ennett, S. & Bauman, K. (1996). Adolescent social networks: School, demographic, and longitudinal consideration. Journal of Adolescent Research, 11, 194-215.
29. Gottfred, M. R. & Hirshi, T. (1990). A general theory of crime. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
30. Hepworth, J. T. & West, S. G. (1988). Lynchings and economy: A time-series reanalysis of Hovland and Sears (1940). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 239-247.
31. Hollingshed, A. ([1949] 1975). Elmtown's youth and Elmtown revisited. New York: Wiley.
32. Hovland, C. & Sears, R. R. (1940). Minor studies in aggression. VI: Correlation of lynchings with economic indices. Journal of Psychology, 9, 301-310.
33. Jessor, R. & Jessor, S. L. (1977). Problem behavior and psychosocial development. New York: Academic Press.
34. Kandel, D. B. (1978). Similarity in real-life adolescent friendship pairs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 306-312.
35. Katz, P. A. (1976). The acquisition of racial attitudes in children. In P. A. Katz (Ed.), Towards the elimination of racism (pp. 125-154). New York: Pergamon Press.
36. Kiesner, J. (1997). The effects of a homework monitoring intervention on school engagement of high risk middle school students. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Eugene: University of Oregon.
37. Kiesner, J., Cadinu, M. R., Poulin, F., & Bucci, M. (2002). Group identification in early adolescence: Its relation with peer adjustment and its moderator effect on peer influence. Child Development, 73, 196-208.
38. Kiesner, J., Dishion, T. J., & Poulin, F. (2000). A reinforcement model of conduct problems in children and adolescents: Advances in theory and intervention. In J. Hill. & B. Maughan (Eds.), Conduct disorders in children and adolescence (pp. 264-291). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. Kinney, D. (1993). From nerds to normals: The recovery of identity among adolescents from middle school to high school. Sociology of Education, 66, 21-40.
40. Loeber, R. (1982). The stability of antisocial and delinquent child behavior: A review. Child Development, 53, 1431-1446.
41. Masson, C. N. & Verkuyten, M. (1993). Prejudice, ethnic identity, contact and ethnic group preferences among Dutch young adolescence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 23, 156-168.
42. Nesdale, D. & Flesser, D. (2001). Social identity and the development of children's group attitudes. Child Development, 72, 506-517.
43. Newcomb, A. F. & Bukowski, W. M. (1983). Social impact and social preference as determinants of children's peer group status. Developmental Psychology, 19, 856-867.
44. Noel, J. G., Wann, D. L., & Branscombe, N. R. (1995). Peripheral ingroup membership status and public negativity toward outgroups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 127-137.
45. O'Brien, S. & Bierman, K. (1988). Conceptions and perceived influence of peer groups: Interviews with preadolescents and adolescents. Child Development, 59, 1360-1365.
46. Ollendick, T. H., Weist, M. D., Borden, M. G., & Greene, R. W. (1992). Sociometric status and academic, behavioral, and psychological adjustment: A five-year longitudinal study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 60, 80-87.
47. Parker, J. G. & Asher, S. R. (1987). Peer relations and later personal adjustment: Are low-accepted children at risk? Psychological Bulletin, 102, 357-389.
48. Patchen, M., Davidson, J. D., Hofmann, G., & Brown, W. R. (1977). Determinants of students' interracial behavior and opinion change. Sociology of Education, 50, 55-75.
49. Poulin, F., Cillessen, A. H. N., Hubbard, J. A., Coie, J. D., Dodge, K. A., & Schwartz, D. (1997). Children's friends and behavioral similarity in two social contexts. Social Development, 6, 224-236.
50. Powlishta, K. K., Serbin, L. A., Doyle, A. B., & White, D. R. (1994). Gender, ethnic, and body type biases: The generality of prejudice in childhood. Developmental Psychology, 30, 526-536.
51. Ray, J. J. & Lovejoy, F. H. (1986). The generality of prejudice. Journal of Social Psychology, 126, 563-564.
52. Ritchey, N. P. & Fishbein, H. D. (2001). The lack of an association between adolescent friends' prejudices and stereotypes. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 47, 188-206.
53. Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
54. Rubin, M. & Hewstone, M. (1998). Social identity's self-esteem hypothesis: A review and some suggestions for clarification. Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 2, 40-62.
55. Rutland, A. (1999). The development of national prejudice, in-group favouritism and self-stereotypes in British children. British Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 55-70.
56. Rutter, M., Giller, H., & Hagell, A. (1998). Antisocial behavior by young people. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
57. Schofield, J. W. (1979). The impact of positively structured contact on intergroup behavior: Does it last under adverse conditions? Social Psychology Quarterly, 42, 280-284.
58. Shrum, W., Cheek, N., Jr., & Hunter, S. (1988). Friendship in school: Gender and racial homophily. Sociology of Education, 61, 227-239.
59. Tajfel, H. & Turner, J. C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In G. Austin & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33-47). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
60. Tolson, J. M. & Urberg, K. A. (1993). Similarity between adolescent best friends. Journal of Adolescent Research, 8, 274-288.
61. Verkuyten, M. (1996). Personal self-esteem and prejudice among ethnic majority and minority youth. Journal of Research in Personality, 30, 248-263.
62. Verkuyten, M. (2001). National identification and intergroup evaluations in Dutch children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 559-571.
63. Wills, T. A. (1981). Downward comparison principles in social psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 90, 245-271.